Patents by Inventor Kazuo Matsuura

Kazuo Matsuura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080017560
    Abstract: The ultrasonic solution separation apparatus oscillates an undiluted solution containing a target material at an ultrasonic frequency to produce mist, and collects the mist to collect a target material containing liquid that contains the target material with higher concentration than the undiluted solution. The ultrasonic solution separation apparatus includes an atomization chamber that oscillates the undiluted solution at an ultrasonic frequency by using a plurality of ultrasonic oscillators to produce the mist; and a collection portion that aggregates and thus collects the mist produced in the atomization chamber. The atomization chamber is divided into a plurality of divided chamber sections so that the ultrasonic oscillators are disposed in the respective divided chamber sections. The ultrasonic oscillators oscillate the undiluted solution supplied into the divided chamber sections to produce the mist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuura, Fusaisugu Abe
  • Publication number: 20080000842
    Abstract: An ultrasonic solution separating method and apparatus separates a solution by ultrasonically vibrating the solution by using an ultrasonic vibrator to atomize the solution into mists, and such atomized mists are condensed and collected for separation from the solution. In the present method and apparatus, a tube 6, defining a spray opening 12 at an upper end of the tube, is filled with the solution; an ultrasonic vibration is applied to the solution inside the tube 6, toward the spray opening 12; the atomized mists are dispersed from the spray opening 12; and a carrier gas is supplied to the mists dispersed from the spray opening 12 so that the mists are atomized in the carrier gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuura, Toshiaki Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20070295595
    Abstract: An ultrasonic solution separating method wherein a solution is ultrasonically vibrated and atomized into mist in a carrier gas in an ultrasonic atomizing chamber (4) and the carrier gas including atomized mist is transferred to a collecting part (5) and in the collecting part (5) the mist component comprising solution atomized into mist is separated from the carrier gas. In the ultrasonic solution separating method, in the collecting part (5), mist component is separated from the carrier gas in an adsorbing step of causing mist component to be adsorbed onto an adsorbing agent (15) by bringing the carrier gas including mist component into contact with the adsorbing agent (15) and a separating step of separating mist component adsorbed onto the adsorbing agent (15) in the adsorbing step from the adsorbing agent (15), and mist component is separated from the carrier gas with the pressure of the separating step being made lower than the pressure of adsorbing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20070159380
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave radar apparatus has a good heat radiation characteristic. The apparatus includes a multilayer substrate, an RF circuit, an antenna, a thermal via hole, a heat transmitting plate, and a casing. The RF circuit and the antenna are provided on the front and rear surfaces of the multilayer substrate respectively. The thermal via hole is provided within the multilayer substrate. The heat transmitting plate is formed therein with an opening so as to avoid deterioration of the wave radiation characteristic of the antenna. The plane of the antenna is contacted with the heat transmitting plate. Heat generated in an MMIC as an active circuit of the RF circuit is transmitted through the thermal via hole and laminated metallic layers, and is diffused onto the surface of the multilayer substrate. Heat reaching the antenna surface of the multilayer substrate is radiated from the heat transmitting plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nagaishi, Hiroshi Shinoda, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20060097912
    Abstract: A high frequency antenna device is provided which includes: a high frequency antenna wiring board having a film antenna formed on one surface of a dielectric substrate made up of multiple, laminated ceramic layers and a high frequency circuit formed on the other surface of the dielectric substrate to generate a high frequency signal; a plate-like metal base having a square opening cut therethrough; and a cover to package a surface of the high frequency circuit on the high frequency antenna wiring board after the high frequency antenna wiring board has been fitted in the opening of the metal base; wherein a periphery of the high frequency antenna wiring board is airtightly sealed and joined to the metal base with glass or brazing metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Isono, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20060032935
    Abstract: A method of separating a liquid atomizes a mixed liquid containing a plurality of components into an atomized fine particle by an ultrasonic vibration to obtain a mixed fluid of the atomized fine particle and air, separates the air from the mixed fluid and collects an atomized component, and separates the atomized component into liquids having different component contents. The method of separating a liquid atomizes the liquid while supplying a carrier gas heated with the thermal energy of the outside air to the surface of the liquid to be atomized or supplies the outside air to the surface of the liquid to be atomized, thereby atomizing the liquid while supplying the thermal energy of the outside air to the surface of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventor: Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20060027487
    Abstract: In the present invention, petroleum is separated into hydrocarbon mixtures having different components at an atomizing step and a collecting step. At the atomizing step, the petroleum is ultrasonically vibrated and is discharged and atomized in a state of an atomized fine particle floating in a carrier gas. At this step, the petroleum is separated into a mixed fluid containing the atomized fine particle and the carrier gas and residual petroleum which is not atomized. At the collecting step, the hydrocarbon mixture is separated and collected from the mixed fluid obtained at the collecting step. In the separating method, the petroleum is separated into the residual petroleum and the mixed fluid at the atomizing step, and the mixed fluid is collected at the collecting step so that the petroleum is separated into hydrocarbon mixtures having different components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventor: Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20050223890
    Abstract: In the present invention, a solution containing a target substance is atomized into a mist by ultrasonic oscillation in an ultrasonic atomization chamber, and the target substance is collected by aggregating the atomized mist in a collection chamber, whereby the target substance is separated from the solution. Further, in the present invention, the gas phase pressure in the collection chamber is maintained to be higher than an atmospheric pressure, whereby the saturation vapor pressure of the target substance in the gas phase is made lower than the saturation vapor pressure under atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventor: Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20050218241
    Abstract: In the present invention, a solution containing a target substance is atomized into a mist in an atomizer 1 to produce a mixed fluid of mist and air. In the collection of the mist from this mixed fluid, an air transmission membrane 51 of a pore size is used that transmits air but does not transmit the target substance contained in the mist. In the present invention, the mixed fluid is brought into contact with the primary surface of the air transmission membrane 51, and the pressure on the primary surface is made higher than the pressure on the secondary surface of the opposite side, whereby the air in the mixed fluid is let to pass through the air transmission membrane 51 to separate part or all of the air contained in the mixed fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuura, Tetsuo Fukazu, Taisuke Sekimoto
  • Publication number: 20050016380
    Abstract: An ultrasonic solution separator comprises an ultrasonic atomization chamber supplied with a solution containing a target material; an ultrasonic oscillator producing mist from the solution in the ultrasonic atomization chamber with ultrasonic oscillation; a power supply for ultrasonics connected to the ultrasonic oscillator, the power supply supplying high-frequency power to the ultrasonic oscillator so that the ultrasonic oscillator oscillates at an ultrasonic frequency; and a collection portion transporting the mist produced by the ultrasonic oscillator with a carrier gas and aggregating and collecting the mist included in the carrier gas. The ultrasonic separator aggregates and collects the mist produced in the ultrasonic atomization chamber by means of the collection portion. With this ultrasonic solution separator, the temperature of carrier gas in the ultrasonic atomization chamber is at least 5° C. higher than the carrier gas in the collection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuura, Masanori Sato
  • Publication number: 20050014539
    Abstract: In a high-frequency transceiver apparatus wherein an antenna substrate made of a dielectric material and having an antenna conductor pattern formed thereon is bonded onto one surface of a base plate to transmit and receive a high frequency wave signal, the flatness accuracy of the surface of the antenna substrate is set at ?/20 or less when ? denotes effective wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Atsushi Koshizaka, Keiji Kawahara, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6585074
    Abstract: A vehicle steering system includes a rack and pinion mechanism having a pinion functionally coupled to a steering wheel and a rack meshing with the pinion and functionally coupled to steerable wheels and a mechanism for displacing the rack in the axial direction thereof to steer the steerable wheels independently of steering operation initiated by the steering wheel. The rack and pinion mechanism comprises a variable gear ratio rack and pinion mechanism having a variable gear ratio, which is the lowest when the steering wheel is in a neutral position and becomes higher as the steering angle of the steering wheel becomes large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takafumi Katou, Yoshimitsu Akuta, Kazuo Matsuura, Keiichi Takikawa
  • Patent number: 6486275
    Abstract: A process for preparing polyolefins by polymerizing or coploymerizing an olefin or olefins in the presence of a catalyst comprising a solid catalyst component and an organometallic compound is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Sano, Takeichi Shiraishi, Kunihiro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20020063012
    Abstract: A vehicle steering system includes a rack and pinion mechanism having a pinion functionally coupled to a steering wheel and a rack meshing with the pinion and functionally coupled to steerable wheels and a mechanism for displacing the rack in the axial direction thereof to steer the steerable wheels independently of steering operation initiated by the steering wheel. The rack and pinion mechanism comprises a variable gear ratio rack and pinion mechanism having a variable gear ratio, which is the lowest when the steering wheel is in a neutral position and becomes higher as the steering angle of the steering wheel becomes large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takafumi Katou, Yoshimitsu Akuta, Kazuo Matsuura, Keiichi Takikawa
  • Patent number: 6360158
    Abstract: The present invention provides an intelligent cruise control device installed in a host vehicle and used for performing follow-up cruise control to follow up a moving target located in front of the host vehicle by supplying an operating signal to an auto cruise control device which is used for carrying out auto cruise control to adjust the speed of the host vehicle by carrying out an operation indicated by the operating signal generated by the operating part in accordance with an operation type such as acceleration and deceleration specified by the driver so that the host vehicle is running at the adjusted speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hanawa, Mitsuru Nakamura, Kazuo Matsuura, Satoru Kuragaki
  • Publication number: 20020013434
    Abstract: A process for preparing polyolefins by polymerizing or coploymerizing an olefin or olefins in the presence of a catalyst comprising a solid catalyst component and an organometallic compound is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Akira Sano, Takeichi Shiraishi, Kunihiro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6249242
    Abstract: A high-frequency transmitter-receiver apparatus includes a transceiver circuit realized in a planar structure by a dielectric substrate and a semiconductor chip and a planar antenna formed on a dielectric substrate are provided on front and rear surfaces, respectively, of a single electrically conductive base plate. Signal lines of the planar circuit and the planar antenna are electrically interconnected by a coaxial line which extends through said base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Sekine, Hiroshi Kondoh, Keigo Kamozaki, Hideyuki Nagaishi, Kazuo Matsuura, Terumi Nakazawa, Michio Tanimoto, Hideaki Sasaki, Yuzo Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6235088
    Abstract: An alcohol separator is provided with an atomizer which supplies a mist of atomized alcohol solution to one region of a flow path, and an electrostatic collection device which uses an electrostatic field corona discharge to capture, liquefy, and recover alcohol solution mist generated by the atomizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Inventor: Kazuo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6111040
    Abstract: A catalyst comprises a composition resulting from mutual contact of the following Components. (A), (B), (C) and (D):said Component (A) being a reaction product resulting from mutual contact of components (a), (b) and (c);said component (a) being represented by the formulaMe.sup.1 R.sup.1.sub.p (OR.sup.2).sub.q X.sup.1.sub.4-p-q Iwherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each are a C.sub.1 -C.sub.24 hydrocarbon moieties, X.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, Me.sup.1 is titanium, zirconium or hafnium, p and q are 0.ltoreq.p.ltoreq.4, 0.ltoreq.q.ltoreq.4 and 0.ltoreq.p+q.ltoreq.4,said component (b) being represented by the formulaMe.sup.2 R.sup.3.sub.m (OR.sup.4).sub.n X.sup.2.sub.z-m-n IIwherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each are a C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 4 hydrocarbon moieties, X.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, Me.sup.2 is an element of Groups I to III in the Periodic Table, z is a valence of Me.sup.2, and m and n are 0.ltoreq.m.ltoreq.z, 0.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.z and 0.ltoreq.m+n.ltoreq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Akira Sano, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6077804
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided a catalyst and a process for the preparation of polyolefins having a relatively wide molecular weight distribution, good particle properties, a narrow composition distribution in copolymerization and a high molecular weight and being less sticky. The catalyst is prepared by contacting the following constituents (1) to (4) with one another:(1) a compound represented by the general formula Me.sup.1 R.sup.1.sub.p (OR.sup.2).sub.q X.sub.4-p-q, where Me.sup.1 is Zr, Ti or Hf, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 24 carbon atoms, X is a halogen atom, p and q are each an integer in the ranges of 0.ltoreq.p.ltoreq.4 and 0.ltoreq.q.ltoreq.4 , provided 0.ltoreq.p+q.ltoreq.4;(2) a compound represented by the general formula Me.sup.2 R.sup.3.sub.m (OR.sup.4).sub.n X.sup.2.sub.z-m-n, where Me.sup.2 is a Group I-III element in the Periodic Table, R.sup.3 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshio Tajima, Naoki Kataoka, Akira Sano, Kazuo Matsuura